Well… it was certainly better than yesterday! Don’t know why, into the mid day, Bob passed by the office saying, ‘ forget about yesterday, leave everything behind and be happy & smile for today…” I have no idea, why he said all that as I guess he had no clue what was going in my mind about yesterday anyway!
I think, together with both Glen & Shanaka – my wonderful colleagues, we came up with a ‘plan’ in an effort to do something about suddenly cropped up meal trolley problem 
Well., guys, I guess we will have to put ‘the plan’ into action fast ! OK, now the bit, I have to do my self…. I got an appointment slot with Kev for tomorrow to go see him to make a rather strange request…. again something to do with meal trolleys. Then I also sent a couple of emails to a couple of senior industry colleagues at Flight Kitchens we cater asking for their personal attention to look into any excess meal trolleys lying around in their respective Kitchens. Let’s see how all these will go….
Just about less than an hour to take off of the Johansberg flight I had a call from Kev and he started saying, ‘mission impossible..’ he wanted me to fix 2 CHMLs for a couple of kids accompanying parents on the flight as they were not pre-booked due to tickets were purchased late to rush for an family emergency. Well, I had to get on with his request to ‘make it happen’ – made a couple of quick phone calls to the Chefs @ the Kitchen and Ops guys, including Darrell who was on the ramp and we managed to deliver 2 CHMLs to the aircraft without any delays and ‘the Mission was succeeded’
I didn’t write about this in my post yesterday; because I was really p….d off with my friend(s) @ IT. Those who know me and really know me, know how much love and passion I have for this IT stuff is (ofcourse among other things!) But when I don’t see same kind of interest from them in getting on with the stuff we had discussed and planned, not keeping up to schedules, and stuff like that,I can’t stand for that ; so I was not at all a happy person with IT y’day and had avoided any communication with ‘em since last evening. However, I feel good that I picked the phone this afternoon and talked to them and explain how could we do things even better with much understanding and clarifying any doubts and that was brilliant
March 3, 2008 at 12:10 pm
Life in airline catering…This has just opened floodgates of so much emotions to flow.A 18 yrs old,middle class,school drop out,clue less….but full of attitude,brought to this place,which looked like a grand palace.Hidden was a factory,lots of cold storages,mind blowing kitchens(compare it to a middle class semi-rural home kitchen),nets and scarves on heads,glazed by the finish of crockery and cutlery,chefs(that’s what they called cooks here),and every thing which reminded of glitzy blitzy movies.Put up in washing,on a liner machine to drop dirty cups and clean the area.The filth,the humidity,no clue if it all smelt better than my dripping sweat.Just like yesterday….
And today,in this bigger than life facility,one of its kind.Felt like I am passing through the pillars of a university,and the last one was just a kinter garden.
After 17 yrs in the profession,the passion hangs me there….and doesn’t seem to have an end to it,probably that I dont want to end it ever.
April 23, 2008 at 5:55 pm
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